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Binance pilots NFT ticketing: Nifty Newsletter, July 27–Aug 2
3.8.2022
Almost 1 million ETH were spent to mint NFTs on the Ethereum network in the first half of 2022, according to a Nansen report
Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Danglers
2.8.2022
Dave Rupert with some modern CSS magic that tackles one of those classic conundrums: what happens when the CSS for component is unable to handle the content we throw at it?
The specific situation is when a layout grid expects …
Implicit Grids, Repeatable Layout Patterns, and Danglers...
PlayStation's problem: third-party royalties... or PS+ revenue?
1.8.2022
It's a red pill/blue pill issue, really
Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Placement Powers
1.8.2022
When working with CSS Grid, the first thing to do is to set display: grid on the element that we want to be become a grid container. Then we explicitly define the grid using a combination of grid-template-columns, grid-template-rows…
Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Placement...
Plus: Steam's top 20 for June - did we get close?
29.7.2022
Also: all the goings-on from Steam and console from this week
Scroll Shadows? Pure CSS Parallax? Game Back On.
29.7.2022
Chris calls scroll shadows one his favorite CSS-Tricks of all time. Lea Verou popularized the pure CSS approach using four layered background gradients with some clever background-attachment magic. The result is a slick scrolling interaction that gives users a hint …
Scroll Shadows? Pure...
Call for Creation of Common African Digital Currency, Kenyan Activists Turn to Crypto Funding, Ghana on the Brink
29.7.2022
In Bitcoin.com News’ inaugural newsletter featuring the biggest crypto and economic news stories from Africa, the head of an African regional central bank, Herve Ndoba, implores the bank’s board to introduce a common digital currency. At the same time, the regional bank warned that...
Recreating MDN’s Truncated Text Effect
28.7.2022
It’s no secret that MDN rolled out a new design back in March. It’s gorgeous! And there are some sweet CSS-y gems in it that are fun to look at. One of those gems is how card components handle truncated …
Recreating MDN’s Truncated Text Effect originally published...
Square Enix to launch FF7: Nifty Newsletter, July 20–26
27.7.2022
The Open Metaverse Alliance for Web3 was created by blockchain platforms with the goal of setting standards for NFTs
The evolution of Steam tags (& why we dig 'em!)
27.7.2022
Also: Quest's price hike, Xbox's results & more
Why paid DLC might be the right choice for your PC/console game!
25.7.2022
Also: Stray's Twitch success - and lots more
Plus: all hail Stray, as 'that cat game' goes big...
22.7.2022
Also looking at all the other new and trending PC/console games, of course!
Why I Chose Angular to Build a URL Shortener
22.7.2022
URL Shorteners are tools we use to make links shorter than they actually are. With a URL Shortener, you can transform a long link (maybe for a registration form or article) into a shorter version.
Behind the scenes, the long …
Why I Chose Angular to Build a URL Shortener originally published...
Roundup of Recent Document Outline Chatter
21.7.2022
It’s not everyday that HTML headings are the topic de jour, but my folder of saved links is accumulating articles about the recently merged removal of the document outline algorithm in the WHATWG Living Standard.
First off, you should know …
Roundup of Recent Document Outline Chatter...
Register Here for a Weekly Update on African News
21.7.2022
The African continent may not be the biggest crypto/blockchain market yet but the growing adoption of the technology illustrates that this will likely be a key market in the future. For instance, instead of being seen or used as a tool for speculative trading, crypto is proving to be a more...
King for the day: 'underdiscovered' games get the spotlight!
21.7.2022
Thanks to some special guests, as we round off our summer holidays
CryptoPunk sells for $2.6M: Nifty Newsletter, July 13–19
20.7.2022
A consulting firm predicted that the NFT market could be worth $231 billion in 2030, noting that the market will grow at a rate of over 33.7% in the years to come
Logical Properties for Useful Shorthands
20.7.2022
Michelle Barker with my favorite sorta blog post: short, practical, and leaves you with a valuable nugget for your time. Here, she gets into logical property shorthands in CSS, particularly those that set lengths just on a single axis, …
Logical Properties for Useful Shorthands originally...
Why haven't you heard of this 'hit game'?
18.7.2022
Oh, we can definitely think of a reason
How stroke-dasharray Patterns Work
15.7.2022
Say you have a line in SVG:
<svg<line x1="0" y1="30" x2="500" y2="30" stroke-color="#f8a100" /</svg
You can use the stroke-dasharray property in CSS to make dashes:
line {
stroke-dasharray: 5;
}
That 5 value is a relative unit based …
How stroke-dasharray Patterns...